How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue

Auteur Imbolo Mbue, Mbue

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ISBN

9781838851354

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Imbolo Mbue, Mbue

Uitgeverij

Canongate Books

Jaar van uitgifte

2021

Aantal pagina’s

368

Waar gaat het over?

Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest only. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a steep price, one which generation after generation will have to pay. Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community's determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.

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